Environment Awareness Research
Technology and Health (EARTH) Center
Director: Fouad H. Fouad, PhD, PE
Established:
1994
The mission of the Environment Awareness Research Technology
and Health (EARTH) Center is to aggressively address environmental awareness,
research, technology, and health issues as a partner with industry and
government. The Center has numerous
appointed faculty for the various schools at UAB.
Center
Research and Activities
To accomplish its mission, the
Center is organized into five divisions which represent major
areas of endeavor in environmental affairs.
The five areas encompass: 1) environmental
issues concerning socio-economic factors and resource management; 2) awareness
of environmental issues and perspectives through formal instruction, published
literature, seminars and avant-garde routes embodied by modern
telecommunications; 3) research into environmentally related subjects; 4)
technology transfer of sustainable technologies and evaluation of the impacts
of technology on the environment; and 5) health effects of products,
technologies, and practices which directly and indirectly impact ecosystem
(including human) health.
For
additional information:
Director: Fouad H. Fouad, PhD, PE
Email: ffouad@uab.edu
Phone: 205-934-8430
Administrator: Jennifer Vinson
Email: jav@uab.edu
Phone: 205-934-8430
Approved
by: Fouad Fouad, PhD, PE, Director
Date: May 13, 2006 (Update
requested)
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